what is the status of the ukraine government? >> thank you for the question .nd thank you for having me on they're having an open channel with a transitional government in kiev about to address the issues and the ukraine and the longer term for what is to be done. clement foreign minister talked -- call. tall these are buttressed by the work that the diplomats are doing in cap to make sure that the temperature is kept as low as possible on this. there's a great risk of provocation going on right now, a lot of uncertainty. i've the feeling that the folks gathered in the situation room at the white house and the state department want to do everything they can to slow the frame rate on this, to make sure that nothing brash is done. >> isn't worth noting that crimea is an autonomous region of ukraine? much the same way that chechnya is an autonomous region as previously granted by the russian government? is that accurate? >> there are a series of agreements that are governing the status of crimea with relation to df. -- kiev. these a